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    Restorative Justice Nathan Garrigan CRJ340/Restorative and Community Based Justice January 25‚ 2013 Patricia Goforth Restorative Justice Restorative justice has been gaining ground since 197 when it was used in a case in Canada. This practice allows the victim to meet face to face with the offender and possibly release some anger and move on from the incident. After gaining more ground‚ today we see Victim Offender Reconciliation Programs across the country trying to help victims after a crime has

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    restorative justice and article called “Restorative Justice Means Restitution for Victims‚ Cost Savings for Taxpayers”. Provides a glimpse of the cost savings to taxpayers. The state of Illinois proposes an estimation savings of $780‚500 a year in taxpayers cost with the current crime rate. In Kansas and Texas the implemented restorative justice programs for property crimes such as theft or burglary already exist saving the taxpayers millions of dollars a year. The benefits of restorative justice include:

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    attempts to define justice. Being that Aristotle was a student of Plato‚ their ideas share many similarities. Both viewed justice as the harmonious interaction of people in a society. However‚ Plato defined his ideal of justice with more usage of metaphysics‚ invoking his Form of the Good‚ while Aristotle took a more practical approach‚ speaking in terms of money and balance. Although Aristotle’s ideal of justice may seem superior‚ upon further inspection‚ Plato’s ideal of justice is the stronger.

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    Justice According to Plato and Aristotle Justice has always been an interesting topic for philosophers and also for ordinary people. Justice can be defined briefly as “the fairness in the way that people are treated” (Collins Cobuild‚ p. 910). Plato and Aristotle‚ two leading figures of ancient Greek civilization‚ were earliest philosophers who thought about justice and developed theories about the sublime aspects of being just. This assignment is an attempt to prove that pursuing a life of justice

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    around the unknown concept of justice and throughout the book‚ attempts to illustrate what is justice with the soul-state analogy. This analogy presents Plato’s definition on justice by method of debate through a conversation between individuals to eliminate inconclusive premises‚ known as the Socratic method. Therefore‚ by assessing components of this analogy: myth of metals‚ tripartite of the human soul and different city-character pairs‚ it allows one to understand justice as a virtue for everyone

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    Universality and Reversibility: Justice and Fairness The categorical imperative incorporates two criteria for determining moral right and wrong: universalizability and reversibility. Universalizability means the person’s reasons for acting must be reasons that everyone could act on at least in principle. Reversibility means the person’s reasons for acting must be reasons that he or she would be willing to have all others use‚ even as a basis of how they treat him or her. That is‚ one’s reasons

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    is “justice” and what is “law”. What may be “law” may not be accepted as “justice” to some of society‚ and what is “justice” may not fall under “law”‚ it is this confliction of what “law” is and what is “justice” that becomes prevalent towards the end of The Stranger‚ and deems the question as to whether true justice was given to Meursault. As respectable as it is to deem that justice was served to Meursault in regards to his crime‚ if it can be called that‚ due to the very nature of justice and

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    Justice and Morality in Plato’s Republic Explain and evaluate the reasons given by Plato in the Republic‚ to support the contention that justice is superior to‚ or more beneficial than‚ injustice? What is the relationship between justice and morality? Introduction This essay discusses and clarifies a concept that is central to Plato’s argument in the Republic — an argument in favour of the transcendent value of justice as a human good; that justice informs and guides moral conduct. Plato’s

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    just and what is not? Throughout the years of human civilization‚ our idea of a just punishment has changed slightly‚ yet the word justice still has a definition that is widely accepted and has been preserved through human history‚ ‘that which is deserved’. The Myth of Oedipus Rex takes place at the time of Greek culture where gods were seen as the deliverers of justice. In the story of Oedipus Rex‚ one follows the life of a man named Oedipus who‚ although born into wealth‚ is given what seems like

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    said that “Mercy‚ detached from Justice‚ grows unmerciful”. While there are many quotes to this effect the point does not differ between them‚ That is‚ that while “He who is merely just‚ is severe”‚ one must find a balance between justice and mercy in order for the legal sytem to work. In Melville’s story “Bartleby the scrivener” he shows us the flaws in both law without compassion and mercy without law. Through the narrator’s eyes we see‚ first how mercy without justice can erode the power of the law

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